Pharmacy robber may be working his way north

A robber who might have had a pistol in his jacket pocket failed to score any drugs at one pharmacy Friday night, but succeeded at a second one a few miles away, San Diego police said.

A white man in his 20s, wearing a hooded jacket, gave a demand note to a clerk at a CVS pharmacy on Del Mar Heights Road, just west of Interstate 5, in Del Mar Heights. He simulated having a handgun in a pocket, police Officer David Stafford said. The robber did not obtain any drugs.

Employees reported the attempted holdup at 6:22 p.m. Twenty-one minutes later, employees at Sav-On pharmacy on Via de la Valle, east of I-5 in North City, reported being held up by a man of similar description. He demanded Oxycodone, a pain killer, and was given some drugs, Stafford said.

Witnesses described the robber as 5 feet 8 inches tall to 6 feet tall, 150 to 180, with brown or blond hair. He wore a hoodie, blue pants and white shoes at Sav-On, located about two miles north from the CVS.